This post has always been worthless, unfunny sh*t, and I don't see how Tweed's antisocial behavior could possibly make it any better.

In fairness (to BRTD, not Tweed), I'm not convinced BRTD considers it 'funny'. It's written in such a way that somebody with a specific type of limited emotional range might find it tragic.

Yes, I've never considered it funny at all. It's just similar to a very "emo" style of writing (referring to real emo of course) and very much in the style of scene people on LiveJournal circa first half of the 00s. Tweed nailed it perfectly. Also my current namesake reminded me of it, the actual song title is The Year Summer Ended In June, although it's a far more tragic scenario: The song is about an old band the vocalist used to be in where two of the members were killed in a car accident. Where he was also in the car and was the only survivor.

And I was listening to it when I read that BK was banned. And later when I read Tweed was banned...it was playing again. God has an odd sense of humor at times. Hence the poignancy.

Massive FFs. It's a bit weird that he has started off his career with widely acclaimed masterpieces like The Secret of NIMH and An American Tail, and then went on to make more low-key movies. But even them most of them have at least something interesting in them. I actually really like Anastasia.

Antonio, why would you tax government benefits? Seems a bit redundant, no?

This provides a corrective to the situation where, by the very design of a program, people end up getting too huge checks from the government. For example, in most countries, unemployment benefits and pensions are based on previously-earned income, which means that wealthy people get comparatively more (and, since the income is pooled in the household, the problem gets even worse as one of the spouse keeps earning a high salary alongside said government benefits). Changing this system would be impractical both politically and economically, but at least we can still make sure that those who get the juiciest deals pay their fair share back to the State.

All types of income (salaries, capital gains, donations, and even government benefits) are taxed. For the purposes of the brackets below, taxed income is calculated as the household's income divided by 1 + 1 for every occupant above 25, 0.7 for every occupant between 12 and 25, and 0.5 for every occupant below 12.

Individuals earning less than 50% of the median taxed income receive a negative income tax bringing them at 50%.

Marginal Tax Rates:50%-75% of the MTI: 0%75%-90% of the MTI: 1%90%-100% of the MTI: 5%100%-110% of the MTI: 10%110%-120% of the MTI: 15%120%-130% of the MTI: 20%130%-150% of the MTI: 25%150%-175% of the MTI: 30%175%-200% of the MTI: 35%2 to 2.5 MTI: 40%2.5 to 3 MTI: 45%3 to 4 MTI: 50%4 to 5 MTI: 55%5 to 6 MTI: 60%6 to 7 MTI: 65%7 to 8 MTI: 70%8 to 9 MTI: 75%9 to 10 MTI: 80%10 to 15 MTI: 85%15 to 20 MTI: 90%20 to 50 MTI: 95%Over 50 MTI: 99%

Actually, until now, I was convinced that I placed at the hawkish end of the Atlas spectrum, with the whole supporting interventions in Libya and Syria (and now against ISIS). I guess the Iran deal and now this issue have pushed me back to the center.

I'm not going to pretend that everything is fine on Atlas or that AAD has no value at all. There's no denying that in some ways AAD discussion has ended up being more interesting. But all this doesn't matter much compared to the poisonous clique-ish atmosphere that pervades AAD, and the anti-mod fanaticism, while it was funny for a while, is ultimately what deluded Tweed into thinking he was the new Julian Assange. Besides, for someone who has no interest in discussing Update, BRTD issues, sexual stuff, or hearing Libertas' constant attention whoring, that place really has little purpose.

Nah, you were the one who was fine with me until I dared opposing your extremist vegetarian views on IRC.

The 'extremism' he is referring to is being a vegetarian, FYI.

No, the issue is not "being a vegetarian". As it happens, I actually have most of the IRC discussion saved, since bgwah's posts were so utterly deranged that it's pure comedy gold. This is not the proper thread for that, but if you're curious feel free to create another one and I'll post the whole thing there.

I can't tell if you're serious or not... From what I remember of you, you're probably serious.

I miss the time when he had me saying "lolcassius" in his sig. It was the perfect way to conclude whatever nonsense he was posting.

Though I can't help but notice that he has chosen to replace it with an ASOIAF/GoT quote, soon after I put one such quote in my own sig. Glad to see I'm still an inspiration.

You are. Indeed, I'd go as far as to say that, if we met in real life (a place where I never discuss my own 'views' about politics and the world if I can help it), we might actually get on reasonably well.

Sure! I can get along very well with people who have awful political views IRL. I even have a good friend who turned kinda-sorta far-right-ish a couple years ago, and keeps trolling me about that.

Tbh, I've reached the point where I'm starting to appreciate your posts. It's like watching a Roose Bolton-esque character: you hate what he's doing, but you can't help enjoying the shameless fun he has doing it.